{"id":17168,"date":"2022-10-24T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17168"},"modified":"2022-10-24T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:46:18","slug":"my-sna-column-39-visible-minorities-never-forget-japans-racist-covid-policies-oct-24-2022-where-i-ask-you-to-seriously-reconsider-devoting-your-life-to-a-place-that-could-revoke-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17168","title":{"rendered":"My SNA Column 39: Visible Minorities: “Never Forget Japan\u2019s Racist Covid Policies” (Oct 24, 2022), where I ask you to seriously reconsider devoting your life to a place that could revoke your legal status at any time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Visible Minorities: Never Forget Japan\u2019s Racist Covid Policies<\/strong>
\nSHINGETSU NEWS AGENCY, OCT 24, 2022 by DEBITO ARUDOU in COLUMN<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2022\/10\/24\/visible-minorities-never-forget-japans-racist-covid-policies\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SNA (Tokyo) \u2014 This month Japan finally lifted its Covid restrictions and reopened its borders to tourists. Well, whoop-de-doo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For now, foreigners will no longer suffer entry caps, or go through extra procedures just because they\u2019re foreign, such as being sequestered in foreigner-only floors of hotels with tour-minders so they don\u2019t wander off and contaminate the rest of Japan.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Never mind that Japanese entrants, barely subjected to these strictures put on foreigners, had all this time predictably infected Japan quite freely.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember how this whole thing started back in 2020, when cases were found in Yokohama Port aboard a luxury liner called the Diamond Princess<\/a>? It soon became mired in Japan\u2019s bureaucratic politics, the ship\u2019s patients counted by no country as part of their Covid case total. This was the bellwether for Japan\u2019s future Covid border policies of incompetence and racism…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rest at https:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2022\/10\/24\/visible-minorities-never-forget-japans-racist-covid-policies\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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SNA (Tokyo) \u2014 This month Japan finally lifted its Covid restrictions and reopened its borders to tourists. Well, whoop-de-doo.<\/p>\n

For now, foreigners will no longer suffer entry caps, or go through extra procedures just because they\u2019re foreign, such as being sequestered in foreigner-only floors of hotels with tour-minders so they don\u2019t wander off and contaminate the rest of Japan.<\/p>\n

Never mind that Japanese entrants, barely subjected to these strictures put on foreigners, had all this time predictably infected Japan quite freely.<\/p>\n

Remember how this whole thing started back in 2020, when cases were found in Yokohama Port aboard a luxury liner called the Diamond Princess? It soon became mired in Japan\u2019s bureaucratic politics, the ship\u2019s patients counted by no country as part of their Covid case total. This was the bellwether for Japan\u2019s future Covid border policies of incompetence and racism…<\/p>\n

Rest at https:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2022\/10\/24\/visible-minorities-never-forget-japans-racist-covid-policies\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,36,22,34,33,52,20,5,12,26,73,4,14,16,13,60,46,11,64,17,55,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-academia","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-exclusionism","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-hate-speech","category-history","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-practical-advice","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-sitys","category-sport","category-tourism","category-unsustainable-japanese-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17170,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168\/revisions\/17170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}